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Theodore Robert Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who between 1974 and 1979 killed numerous young women in Washington, Utah, Colorado and Florida. His total number of victims is unknown. Bundy confessed to 30 murders; estimates run above 100.
Bundy is believed to have been a sociopath. He was intelligent, educated, personable, handsome, and charming, but nevertheless regularly brutally murdered women and girls, usually with a blunt instrument, sometimes by strangulation. He would also often sexually assault his victims before and after death.
At about the time his first love broke up with him for not being ambitious enough, he discovered that his "parents" were really his grandparents, and that he was illegitimate. Bundy changed his personality, studying psychology, getting involved in politics and creating a new persona. Eventually, this new persona swept his ex off her feet. She agreed to marry him. Two days later, he dumped her and shortly afterward began a rampage that lasted three years. Over the next six months, he murdered approximately 10 victims in Oregon, Utah and Washington. Bundy had a remarkable advantage as his facial features were charming, yet not especially memorable.
On November 8, 1974, Carol DaRonch narrowly escaped abduction by Bundy. Bundy was later captured and convicted of her kidnapping. He was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison. Colorado authorities, however, had discovered Bundy's numerous murders up to this point, and were already preparing to press murder charges against Bundy.
In preparation for a hearing in his murder trial, he was transported to the Pitkin County, Colorado courthouse. Bundy jumped out of the building from a window and escaped. He wandered around the area before being recaptured a week later. However, while in jail awaiting the start of his trial, Bundy escaped again. He somehow acquired a hacksaw and, over time, sawed a square hole in the ceiling of his cell. Bundy climbed out the hole, managed to reach the main hallway, and was able to walk right out the jail's front door. Bundy stole a car in the parking lot and drove off into the night.
Bundy made his way to Tallahassee, Florida. Over the next month he would proceed to commit some of the most infamous murders in American history. He murdered two college students and seriously wounded two others at their sorority house. The two murdered women had both been bludgeoned. One had also been raped and sodomised with an aerosol hairspray can and had been bitten on various parts of her body. Before long, Bundy was identified and taken to Miami to stand trial for murder. After being convicted, Bundy was sentenced to death. While under sentence of death, he was tried again and handed another death sentence. On January 24, 1989, Bundy was put to death by the State of Florida, by method of electrocution. |
The Only Living Witness:
The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy
By Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Michaud and Aynesworth are a reporter and an investigator team who interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy while he was on death row in Florida. This volume chronicles his activities throughout several states but is at its best in a long section of transcripts from the interview in which, while he never admits his quilt, Bundy offers vivid details of the crimes and commentary on the mindset of a serial killer. This revised edition includes some additional information.
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Ted Bundy:
Conversations with a Killer
By Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth
Michaud and Aynesworth spent weeks interwiewing psycho sex killer Bundy before Florida authorities executed him. Bundy's story was detailed by the duo in their chilling volume The Only Living Witness (above). The best portion of that title was the excerpts from those interviews. Originally released in 1989, the book contains the full transcripts from those conversations. Without ever admitting that he performed any of these acts (he maintained his innocence until hours before his execution), Bundy offers a matter-of-fact, third-person account of how "someone" performing kidnappings, rapes, and murders might go about it and how that person might act under these circumstances. His frankness offers perhaps the most unfettered look into the mind of a serial killer, and many of his observations are quite surprising, as Bundy reveals himself to be clever, insightful, and intelligent--far from how most would picture a psychosexual killer. His revelations on the nature of the instinct to kill, where it comes from, how it grows, how victims are selected, etc., are invaluable to psychologists and investigators. This updated edition contains a new foreword by Robert Keppel, president of the Institute for Forensics.
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The Stranger Beside Me:
The Twentieth Anniversary Hardcover Edition
By Ann Rule
The bible of all Bundy books! Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, a brilliant law student, and on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murders of three young women, having confessed to taking the lives of at least thirty-five more. This is the story of one of the most fascinating killers in American history--of his magnetic power, his bleak compulsion, his double life, his string of helpless victims. It is also the story of Ann Rule, a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass murderer. Little did she realize that the "Ted" the police were seeking was the same Ted who worked with her at a Seattle crisis clinic, a man who had become her close friend and confidant. As she began to put the evidence together, a terrifying picture emerged of the man she thought she knew. Twenty years after it was first published, The Stranger Beside Me remains a gripping, explosive true-crime classic. 8 pages of photographs.
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The Stranger Beside Me
(paperback)
By Ann Rule
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Ted Bundy
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Court TV: Crime Stories
Ted Bundy
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The Deliberate Stranger
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Defending the Devil:
My Story As Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer
By Polly Nelson
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Ted Bundy:
The Killer Next Door
By Steven Winn
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A&E Biography
Ted Bundy
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The Riverman:
Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
By Robert Keppel
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The Phantom Prince:
My Life With Ted Bundy
By Elizabeth Kendall
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